Sport: Fitful Fall

Missouri was clobbered by Nebraska 62-0. Nebraska lost to U.C.L.A.
20-17. U.C.L.A. was defeated by Michigan 26-9. Michigan barely squeaked
by Northwestern 7-0. And Northwestern was manhandled by Notre Dame
37-0. That, by all the rules of logic, means that Missouri should have
lost to Notre Dame by a lopsided score of something like a zillion to
zip. Right?

Wrong. The lowly, thrice-beaten Missourians not only met the unbeaten
Irish on Notre Dame's home turf, a prospect about as promising as the
Christians' venturing into the Colosseum, but pulled off a startling...